Telegram-herald., 1887-03-23


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be~Lag Waaff Fiae AZ adosa passage way
Ter tks ulsa wes CARY Tie n1h sseeFe.
4 coat eiG1t kaaArea Asa t~euty I've tons
sl fsh arrive ~ DiAAssE4ks daily ~
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fal pas ked ia iea Ia iroa e9sD and pse
sookcd boxes twelve ~ rfteea f~el lsaE.
Ak or eigas fst. r1ee. 2ao s1roe feet deep
Ih4se Is sAt multitude of perseOs aua
q large 15el 81 vessels engaged Ia supply
irg tEls ash mAtAe1 Steamers ts1e ths
IS aad sfrunksn o0t - tie nsa.nz snecks
IN the North So and about tW.oe week
b1.ng in lo2ss q Asa
The great hall OF this market oorupies
the ground noor os the central portion O
ths building. This hali Is divided into enc
hundred and forty stands" where many
OF the iish are sold ~ agction, which re-
miads og Babel Every bc1y employed
Ia the building must 10 "Aceasoi-" Tiers
are engaged there about eleven hundred
porteFs. besides tho clerks police and
others
TIE 'laadlng'' process begins when fys
o'clock strikes. For four bolrs the con.
fusion is terrific ald tho tol incessant
Precisely az nine o'clock IN the forenoon
ths tranic must cease. for the hsh convey.
ances must lie out OF = way OF the torrent
Of regular travel
The oaly 'Gand' approach 20 nnlingsgats
Is through Lower Thames stree. v hich IS
only twenty-eigtt feet wide, ani can 40
commodate merely two streams OF travel,
one each way; thus, any accident stops the
tTaliic Oaly six vans Can be unloaded OF
loadct at the same time. As there are
sometimes four thousand vans, carts sno
wheelbarross striving - load or unload
during tho four hours no wonder that httlr
artery OF commerce Ia this narrow street
becomes choked.
as the market clo.es a. nIne O'clock in
the morning, hunareds Of pounds of Ash
are thrown away, because they would not
keep fresh until fye O'Clock the next morn
ing.
Ia the basement of the building the she'll
fsh are sold. There are large "coppers'
where the purchaser can have his fist
boiled by steam in from ten TO twenty
minutes.
"Bnlingsgate," applied 10 very coarse
language. has passed into proyerb
Bllingsgate market must have beer
thought of in the phrase, "a very ancient
and fsh-likc smen'
Although the market is very incOnveni
ent, it has not been given up FOR the mar
ket OF tho Great Eastern railway at Can
ningtown, nor the Columbia market, pre-
sented e. London by the noble Baroness
Burdett- Coutts- Bartlett.
Il. G.. LAMoIL.E.